Wednesday, 26 November 2014

The Green Monster Quilt

This is my friend Bronwyn’s Quilt.Bronwyn designed the quilt and showed me a copy of the design before the quilt was completed. As a quilter, what I really liked about it was the
interesting shapes that were the background, and I spent some time looking at
the design drawing to work out how I should tackle quilting it.

As I have been quilting for Bronwyn for years I am
comfortable having artistic freedom.I
decided to treat each three pronged area as a whole unit and designed a feather
to fit this shape.

I do not have a computerised machine so the entire quilt was done with rulers and the feathers are freehand.I deliberately made the feathers all slightly different, and some have little curls in random places.

The centre star I emphasised with straight lines.

The little pieced stars around the centre star I emphasised
with straight lines and a row of pebbles to make them stand out a little from
the rest of the background.

This is a big quilt, and there is a lot of quilting.Bronwyn called the quilt Chrysoberyl, which
is a green gemstone.But by the time I
had finished this quilt I was calling it The Green Monster.

Bronwyn blocked the quilt at my house, as she didn’t have
the available floor space.I helped her,
but all I did was hold the tape measure and Bronwyn was the one crawling around
putting in all the pins.Usually I am
the one doing that, and my husband just holds the tape measure when I block a
quilt, so it was nice to be just the helper for a change.

Bronwyn entered the quilt in the Victorian Quilters Showcase
last year.It received some lovely
comments.

I think you achieved the blending of the quilting with the piecing perfectly!!!! It has become the "total package". I have a Sweet 16 (sit-down mid-arm) and do hand guided FMQ exclusively. I appreciate all that you have put into the designing of the quilting motifs/placements that enhance the piecing of the star and 'prongs'. Totally inspiring!!!!!!!

In my world that would be covered with ribbons. That is AMAZING. As a LA' er I appreciate the fabulous execution of the quilting and ruler work. Maybe another show will honor this piece. Thanks for sharing

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